(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Brunei Legislative Council Speaker Abdul Rahman Taib had an online conversation on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Two of five undersea cable routes that account for most of the Internet connection capacity from Vietnam to the world have been interrupted.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, chaired a meeting in Hanoi on Wednesday to discuss a project for building and completing a law-governed socialist state to 2030 with an orientation toward 2045.

(VOVWORLD) - An online conference on lychee sales was held on Tuesday, linking Bac Giang, Vietnam’s major lychee grower, with other localities, trade and agriculture officials, and foreign companies.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt on Tuesday appealed for donations to Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.

(VOVWORLD) - UNICEF Goodwill Ambassadors footballer David Beckham, actress Whoopi Goldberg, and songwriter Angelique Kidjo on Tuesday signed an open letter to the upcoming G7 Summit of world leaders to demand that the leaders commit to donating COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries.

(VOVWORLD) - Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech announced Tuesday that they will begin testing their COVID-19 vaccine on a larger group of children under 12.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday eased travel recommendations for more than 110 countries and territories, including Japan, just ahead of the Olympics.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Senate on Tuesday passed a sweeping package of legislation intended to boost the US's ability to compete with China's growing economic and military power.

(VOVWORLD) - The UN Security Council on Tuesday recommended to the General Assembly that Antonio Guterres be appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations for a second term of office from early 2022 to late 2026.